Originally Posted by
RollCNY
Took the fixed gear to my kid's soccer practice, to teach myself to trackstand on the the little used traffic circle. There was a passle of kids LARP'ing, in costume and with foam weapons, pulverizing each other, and my bike and I were apparently more distracting than them. People would rubber neck and ask me what I was doing, oblivious to the 50 kids around me. I guess cycling is a real oddity.
The other day I passed an empty parking lot on my fixed gear and thought "Hmm, maybe I'll try to learn riding backwards. I got in maybe 1/25th of a revolution in reverse before I bailed on that idea. Need full body armour.
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